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Kid Berwyn

(14,795 posts)
20. Blueprints
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 12:08 PM
Aug 2020
Depraved Indifference

To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant's conduct must be 'so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime. Depraved indifference focuses on the risk created by the defendant’s conduct, not the injuries actually resulting.

In one case, People v Register, 60 NY2d 273, 469 NYS2d 599 (1983), while exploring the meaning of "depraved indifference recklessness" the Court of Appeals ruled that intoxication is not a defense or excuse to "depraved mind murder," although it may be to intentional murder. Its analysis started with distinguishing reckless manslaughter from the "depraved indifference recklessness" necessary for murder:

"to bring defendant’s conduct within the murder statute, the People were required to establish also that defendant’s act was imminently dangerous and presented a very high risk of death to others and that it was committed under circumstances which evidenced a wanton indifference to human life or a depravity of mind. . . . . The crime differs from intentional murder in that it results not from a specific, conscious intent to cause death, but from an indifference to or disregard of the risks attending defendant’s conduct." 60 NY2d at 274.

Source: https://definitions.uslegal.com/d/depraved-indifference/

Words are ways to record the truth for all history. Let these depraved and cretinous ghouls meet justice in this world real soon.
Kick dalton99a Aug 2020 #1
Thanks, dalton99a! Jared turned to Facebook for expertise... Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #10
Reactivate the Independent Prosecutor law and prosecute them all, Nuremberg tribunals for all Fiendish Thingy Aug 2020 #2
Yes! We do not know who is embedded in the gov't now and it will take major investigators to root Hestia Aug 2020 #11
Independent being the operative term. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #14
There's one additional point that would need to be addressed... JHB Aug 2020 #33
+1000,000!! ancianita Aug 2020 #26
Depraved indifference. blm Aug 2020 #3
Blueprints Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #20
We need media willing to call this what it is. blm Aug 2020 #21
+100 Duppers Aug 2020 #34
THIS malaise Aug 2020 #40
Genoside came to my mind. BigmanPigman Aug 2020 #29
+1. dchill Aug 2020 #32
THIS! Zoonart Aug 2020 #4
No kidding. From this to the bounties Trump should be lead away underpants Aug 2020 #6
Yes. Zoonart Aug 2020 #7
Must avoid anything that upsets the monster and one's place in the pecking order. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #25
That was part of my take when I read it the other night underpants Aug 2020 #5
"Politically Advantageous" Depravity merits prosecution to the fullest. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #35
Master of incompetence underpants Aug 2020 #42
Lock them up! malaise Aug 2020 #8
It's like destiny. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #38
This is a kakistocracy on steroids malaise Aug 2020 #39
Absolute thieves. Plus, they're incompetent. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #41
Agreed. We will never regain standing in the world as a nation if we allow crickets Aug 2020 #9
We had a plan. Dump did the opposite. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #43
At The Hague? 2naSalit Aug 2020 #12
Dump must be held to account for all of it. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #44
I've been saying we need a new Nuremburg CanonRay Aug 2020 #13
I misread "prosecuted" as a much harsher word. Works for me. niyad Aug 2020 #15
Genocide. It's genocide. CaptainTruth Aug 2020 #16
As usual, their incompetence resulted in more red state deaths than blue state ones. Nitram Aug 2020 #17
This one is simple. They need to be in jail.!!!! ashredux Aug 2020 #18
kick miyazaki Aug 2020 #19
I agree to the fullest. NNadir Aug 2020 #22
nevermind that trump is in the white house, the only reason they think they can certainot Aug 2020 #23
And conservative voters are complicit with it. They are sick. ffr Aug 2020 #24
My former BFF of 36 years is a MAGAt whose father was an official at the Nuremberg trials. Go figure OMGWTF Aug 2020 #31
Negligent Genocide RealityBasedNewYorkr Aug 2020 #27
Recommended. H2O Man Aug 2020 #28
Indeed they must. PatrickforO Aug 2020 #30
Kushner torpedoed the plan because Trump told him to do it Lasher Aug 2020 #36
K&R smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #37
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